LOCOMOTION/NEST BUILDING

Chimpanzees use various methods of locomotion, both terrestrial and arboreal. Chimps brachiate (swing from tree to tree), climb, and walk both bipedally and on four knuckles. They feed and rest both on the ground and in the trees and generally travel long distances on the ground.

Nest Building.

Chimpanzees build arboreal nests to sleep in each night using a foundation of solid branches or forks and bending, breaking and weaving the branches, creating the nest in a circular fashion. Chimpanzees will occasionally build day nests as well, often on the ground. Sometimes chimpanzees will reuse a nest from the previous night or built by a previous occupant. Nests are only shared by mothers and nursing off spring. Nest building habit has proven to be very useful to researchers who have found counting them to be the most practical and accurate way of estimating population size.

Founded by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda is a global Non-Profit Organization that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. Our work builds on Dr.Goodall’s scientific work and her humanitarian vision.

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the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda in partnership with Eco-Trust and Chimp Trust is implementing an 18 months project in Uganda’s Albertine region in specific Masindi district. Project Goal. The project aims to enhance community resilience to losses from wildlife incursions through the development of local and regional compensation schemes that is anchored on a community-driven […]

The Green Lung Forest Restoration (GLF) Project was a six (6) months project from July 2016 to January 2017. The GLF project was implemented in six parishes within Hoima District in Western Uganda with the purpose of enhancing the resilience of forest adjacent communities and protective ecosystems through community-led adaptation interventions focusing on riparian forest afforestation […]

JGI focuses its main education programs around Kibale, Budongo, Bugoma and the Kalinzu/Kasyoha- Kitomi forests areas, where awareness of chimpanzees and the environment can best help protect viable chimpanzee populations. Within these areas, JGI Uganda has established an effective Environmental Education (EE) programme at the primary school level. The various elements of this programme focus […]

The project is providing an opportunity for community members in Masindi and Bushenyi districts through teachers and pupils to learn more about the forest environment, its importance and what people can do to help protect it. Specific Goals of the Project. • To equip at least 30 teachers from 30 schools in two districts with […]

The project was implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) – Uganda with funding from JGI – Austria in Cooperation with the Austrian Public Campaign “Mother Earth” Project Lifespan. The Forest Corridor Project (FCP) was implemented for one-year (January – December, 2015) and it targeted over 3,500 community members in seven (7) villages in Buseruka [...]

Our Philosophy: Is based on the belief that “every individual matters, every individual has a role to play and every individual makes a difference.” Dr. Jane Goodall founded Roots & Shoots in 1991 an environmental and humanitarian programme of the Jane Goodall Institute. The program’s mission to foster respect and compassion for all living things, [...]